Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] hurd: Add expected abilist files for x86_64

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>]

Sergey Bugaev, le lun. 01 mai 2023 20:33:36 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 1:20 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Applied, thanks!
> 
> I assume the delay means you have built it, and your results matched
> mine,

Yes :)

Though I added libanl which we do want since we haven't moved libpthread
into libc.

> I can hardly believe it no longer only exists on my machine :) Did you
> manage to run it?

I haven't tried that at all.

> How do we proceed? I don't know enough about rump to get it building;

We can easily cross-build debian packages thanks to the rebootstrap
scripts from Helmut:

https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/rebootstrap.git

> so enabling the in-kernel Linux drivers seems preferable.
> Any tips on how I would do that? Are the Linux drivers ancient enough
> to require their own porting to x86_64, or will they just work?

They will just *not* work with 64bit. The glue code is not ready at all,
and I think it's really not useful to spend time on that when we have
the rump drivers which should be working fine.

Now, that being said, you can also use an initrd, see debian's
50_initrd.patch (which nobody has yet taken the time to clean according
the discussion at the time). That's enough to run a full Hurd system,
you can for instance take the initrd files from the debian installation
CD.

Samuel